After the 1985 earthquake in Mexico City, many seniors were left homeless, lost family and refused to go to a shelter or leave the neighborhood. Surge formally Community Participatory Tepito (COMPARTE), as a Civil Society Organization, nonprofit (NGO), or any political or religious affiliation, to meet such a vulnerable social group with an innovative proposal attention: "the alternative to asylum", which, it is a model that aims to maintain and help the elderly to develop within their community as a fully productive, autonomous and independent, and play a leading role in society.
MISSION
"Facilitating and sharing what is and is with and among older people in social vulnerability, to remain in their environment, Improve their living conditions are a factor of change in society. "
PHILOSOPHY
We believe that older people are able to:
- Change, learning and sharing until the last moment of his life.
- Continue to live independently and with dignity.
- Keep your family and social networks.
- Build a network of solidarity between them for mutual support.
- Play a leading role within the soiedad.
- Assume responsibility for the operation and management to share.
COMPARTE TODAY
Nearly 25 years later, nestled in the neighborhood of Tepito, COMPARTE daily face the challenge of staying in a difficult environment where drug trafficking, arms sales and foreclosures, have displaced the traditional modus vivendi of its inhabitants: the "fayuca" out eleven.
We work with a single goal: Improve the quality of care and life of older persons, Give love, help them feel valued, useful and above all, To promote solidarity among older adults through the integration of programs of: Coexistence, Housing, Health, Accompaniment (Support of eldery) and Solidarity Committees.
COEXISTENCE
The program is Aimed at those living people who need others to survive the disease or health, Because that's not really what worries them, this program gives them peace of mind. The tranquility of being identified with others, to know that Despite the changes that have lived since that day I began fighting for life, have not been alone, Although sometimes they feel well, there's someone who understands and help, someone like them. Mal of many, the consolation of fools, evil of all, teamwork.
OBJECTIVES:
Encourage older adults to be part of a group that share not only time and experience but given and provide something
useful and opportunity for the rest of his teammates.
Act as a gateway to share. Most older adults who know and participate in the institution do so through this program.
Assist in organizing events and activities of other programs.
SUPPORT OF ELDERLY
The accompanying area seeks to help the elderly through home visits. It applies to those people who for some health impairment are unable to attend facilities COMPARTE. These visits Provide medical, psychological, Pantries and accompanying seniors to medical appointments outside.
These activities are allocated according to the degree of dependence and the needs of the elderly. For older adults who may go to facilities COMPARTE they are offered the same consideration, in addition to the training and coexistence within COMPARTE.
OBJECTIVES:
Provide company for seniors in the neighborhood. This is accomplished in two ways:
Seniors attending COMPARTE. They come to the institution and integrated programs according to their needs so that their activities will be designated
Seniors home visits. Are assigned visits the homes of older adults for medical review, to accompany them or external company medical check.
INTEGRAL HEALTH AND PREVENTIVE
The comprehensive health program Focuses on prevention and the care they should have for older adults themselves. They provide knowledge on how to avoid diseases and medical services are awarded at a cost of recovery.
Medical services provided by the program can be of two types:
For project (sponsored by institutions)
Own (with local physicians)
Specialties Tries To provide are those most needed by the older viewers, but these queries are not exclusive to them, any person who requests can enjoy the benefits of programs unless the sponsoring institution as determined in a different manner.
OBJECTIVES: Encouraging a culture of health by offering a service to patients
That older adults with information about their suffering in order to understand better.
To help Improve the quality of life of seniors through nutrition and inductions of home visits (health) as the basis for
achieving food self-sufficiency.
HOUSING
Housing provides older people to rent the facility or take a home loan for room based on your ability. The homes are designed exclusively for older adults (preferably over 60 years) that can assert themselves and need a place to live.
In exchange for the Granting of housing, people must commit to participate in the activities of COMPARTE. They must follow rules of coexistence in Certain Maintaining a harmonious life among users.
OBJECTIVES:
-- Provide a home and helps seniors in need.
-- Providing older adults a sense of self-reliance and cooperation so they can live in harmony with its neighbors and roommates if they have them.
SOLIDARITY COMMITTEES
Volunteer groups of people, Comprised mostly of older adults, in addition to the work in each program / area * of the partnership and remain committed to learn from the other and share their experience and areas of expertise and support other older adults to continue to evolve
Objective:
Create a volunteer recruitment program for young and old, to join the work done by the association and motivate the other out through concrete actions.
Capturing human resources to Promote and Strengthen the work of the association through its programs based
Create a space for ongoing training of older volunteers
Encourage the active participation and leading role of the seniors.